Occasionally-Asked Questions

How is Boke pronounced?

What does Boke mean?

We wanted a short, simple, memorable word we could use to brand our events. So we came up with Boke. Like Kodak, we wanted a word that was inherently meaningless, so that we could make it mean whatever we wanted.

What’s with all the flowers on this website?

Even though our original intention was to invent a meaningless word, it turns out that there are a number of words that are spelt and/or pronounced like Boke.

Boke is the Japanese name for a shrub English-speaking people usually call flowering quince (Latin name: Chaenomeles). All the flowers on this website are varieties of flowering quince; they are all boke.

Is Bruce Duggan the same person as the Boke poet & filmmaker MB Duggan?

Yes.

Turns out there’s even a bit of Boke graffiti out there.I didn’t do any of it, I swear.